Just like the Energizer bunny, Florence Barron, simply retains on going. Barron, who’s now 86, participated within the annual Capital Subaru Cape to Cabot 20K Highway Race 2024 in St. John’s, N.L. on Sunday, marking her eleventh yr of participation on the occasion. Her time was 2:28:44.
The boys’s facet additionally had an 80+ competitor: Invoice Saunders, 80, completed the race in 2:16:13.
The very hilly and difficult Cape to Cabot 20K begins at Cape Spear Nationwide Historic Website (essentially the most easterly level of land in North America) and finishes at Sign Hill in St. John’s and consists of about 17 km of rolling hills, with a protracted climb on the finish.
Barron has been working races and breaking age-group information in Newfoundland and past for years; her private greatest on the occasion is 2:06:58, from 2017. “I get pleasure from it a lot, and I be ok with it,” Barron informed CTV information final yr about her (then) 26 years of working. “As long as I really feel good, I believe I’ll preserve going.”
Mark Greene and Allyson Stuckless took the wins at Sunday’s race, in 1:17:02 and 1:32:36, respectively.
Greene and Stuckless additionally gained the MUNN Mile, which is the ultimate 1.6 km of the race, an uphill climb to the end line. Inexperienced’s time was 8:43; Stuckless’s was 10:34.
Barron was inducted into the Newfoundland and Labrador Sports activities Corridor of Fame in 2022. Her information embrace two in France, for being each the quickest girl 70s and 80s to finish an annual 25-kilometre race on the French island of Miquelon, off Newfoundland’s southern coast. She frequents races throughout Atlantic Canada.
For full outcomes of the 2024 Cape to Cabot 20K Highway Race, click on right here.
